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Don't play the occasion, play the game.
— Alex Ferguson
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
— Thorstein Veblen
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
— Thorstein Veblen
It is no coincidence that some of America's most lethargic industries-steel, footwear, rubber, textiles-are also among the most heavily protected.
— Thomas DiLorenzo
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.
— Thorstein Veblen
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
— Thorstein Veblen
Invention is the mother of necessity.
— Thorstein Veblen
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
— Thorstein Veblen
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.
— Thorstein Veblen
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
— Thorstein Veblen
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
— Thorstein Veblen
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
— Thorstein Veblen
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.
— Thorstein Veblen
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
— Thorstein Veblen
But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Waiting is one of the great arts.
— Margery Allingham
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
— Thorstein Veblen
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.
— Thorstein Veblen
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
— Thorstein Veblen
Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.
— Arthur Rubinstein
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
— Thorstein Veblen
I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
— Patricia Velasquez
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
— Thorstein Veblen
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
— Thorstein Veblen
I have a lot of love inside my house. I can't ask for more.
— Miguel Cotto
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe ...
— Thorstein Veblen
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.
— Thorstein Veblen
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.
— Thorstein Veblen
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
— Thorstein Veblen
Socialism is a dead horse.
— Thorstein Veblen
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
— Thorstein Veblen
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
— Thorstein Veblen